Ron Taffel

How can parents compete with the near unlimited access to information, family-supplanting youth culture, and social pressures of today’s kids? Ron Taffel’s parenting Webcast Session addresses these and more challenges to parental authority in the 21st century. Learn new ways of enhancing parents' ability to find their authentic voice and become an influence in their children's lives.

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Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson

The unique demands and challenges of couples therapy—high volatility, extreme disengagement, and the need for a highly directive therapist—can be daunting for even the most skilled individual therapist.

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Esther Perel and William Doherty

What makes a relationship work? Answers to that question vary wildly from one decade to the next, but even within the current generation, there are countless ways to define committed relationships. For therapists, this means there are also countless things to consider when treating couples.

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Susan Johnson and Kathryn Rheem

For a field so focused on dealing with the emotional life, it’s ironic that many psychotherapists try to bypass or contain emotion, rather than actively use it for change. In this engaging and dynamic Symposium Workshop Susan Johnson and Kathryn Rheem present a more skilled approach to working with clients’ difficult emotions.

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Esther Perel

Working through affairs in therapy means digging into the layers of hurt, betrayal, secrecy, and unexplored desire that both lead to and result from infidelity. In her Webcast Session, Esther Perel discusses how to navigate this maze of emotions and secrets in couples therapy. Her approach challenges conventional therapeutic wisdom about rebuilding trust and intimacy after an affair.

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Sherry Turkle

In today’s world, technology is increasingly taking the place of face-to-face connections, redrawing the boundaries between intimacy and solitude. In her Symposium Keynote, Sherry Turkle explores whether virtual intimacy is degrading our experience of real-world encounters and how therapists can help.

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Martha Straus

Bringing kids together with their parents, both in and out of the consulting room, is often easier said than done. As Martha Straus notes in this Webcast session on families, there are times when it’s useful to work with the whole family togetherand times when it’s better to see parents and children separately.

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Pat Love

Let’s face it—many men who come to therapy think it simply isn’t a “guy thing.” Unfortunately, therapists have reinforced this perception by being slow to recognize the distinct strengths men bring to relationships. In this Webcast session on couples, Pat Love explores scientifically informed approaches to successfully working with male clients.

Therapy with more than one client in the room, especially when there’s entrenched hostility, dashed dreams and raw pain, poses extra challenges for the clinician. These materials provide guidance on how to do more effective and rewarding work with your most difficult couples and families.